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Foreign private software developers have started blocking access to their services to programmers from Russia. This was done, in particular, by Onjey Sury from the Czech Republic, a well-known expert in the field of free software. In his GitHub profile, he apologized to everyone for not blocking the Russians earlier.
From programmers to outcasts
Foreign programmers began to openly turn away from their Russian colleagues and show contempt for them. So, a very well-known Czech developer in the free software community, Ondrej Sury, denied them access to his repositories, where he stores various PHP packages, including for Debian and Ubuntu. The first user to pay attention to this was "Habr" under the pseudonym Tannenfels.
We are talking about the so-called " Personal Package Archives "(PPA). This term refers to software repositories whose authors store components that are not yet included in the application or operating system for which they were developed.
Onjey Sury placed his repositories on his own server, which he blocked access to for users with Russian IP addresses. He even boasted about it in his profile on GitHub (owned by Microsoft) and apologized to everyone that he did not expel Russians from his service earlier.
Onjay is very sorry that he didn't turn his back on the Russians earlier
"I should have done it sooner. Sorry that it took so long, but I started geoblocking Russia on packages.sury.org Sury wrote on his GitHub profile. By the time the article was published, there were about 10 comments under this post. Most of them are Suras marked as not corresponding to the topic of discussion.
The protection is too weak
By the time the material was published, Sura's website was accessible from Russia without using additional technical means. At the same time, an attempt to download any of the files from it leads either to error 403 (Forbidden), or directly to a download failure.
However, the built-up protection of Sura from the Russians costs a couple of clicks. Any of the services that are still operating in Russia for replacing a Russian IP address with a foreign one opens full access to all files on its website without exception.
In other words, it cannot be said that Sura's decision made it even slightly more difficult for Russian users to access its RPA repositories. On the other hand, other developers may follow suit. By the time the material was released, the excommunication of Russians from private repositories had not yet become a mass phenomenon.
How one Czech took an example from other Czechs
Onjey Sura made the decision to block Russians by IP immediately after other Czech developers who have more weight in the global IT industry did the same.
CNews wrote that at the very beginning of July 2024, JetBrains banned users from Russia from downloading the distribution of the world-famous IntelliJ IDEA development environment from its website. JetBrains is a Czech company founded by immigrants from Russia at the beginning of the XXI century, and IntelliJ IDEA is one of its largest developments. It allows you to create software in Java, Kotlin, C#, C++, Python, PHP, JavaScript, and many other languages.
But, unlike Sura, the authors of IntelliJ IDEA indicated the official reason why they started geoblocking Russians. This, according to them, is due to the new packages of anti-Russian sanctions of the European Union.
As in the case of Suri, the ban on downloading IntelliJ IDEA, with a very high probability, will not affect the Russian developer community in any way. Runet is full of numerous pirated versions of this framework for Windows, macOS and Linux, and if you need the original distribution kit from the official JetBrains website, then you can get it using the same technical tools that provide access to Onjay Sura's repositories.
From programmers to outcasts
Foreign programmers began to openly turn away from their Russian colleagues and show contempt for them. So, a very well-known Czech developer in the free software community, Ondrej Sury, denied them access to his repositories, where he stores various PHP packages, including for Debian and Ubuntu. The first user to pay attention to this was "Habr" under the pseudonym Tannenfels.
We are talking about the so-called " Personal Package Archives "(PPA). This term refers to software repositories whose authors store components that are not yet included in the application or operating system for which they were developed.
Onjey Sury placed his repositories on his own server, which he blocked access to for users with Russian IP addresses. He even boasted about it in his profile on GitHub (owned by Microsoft) and apologized to everyone that he did not expel Russians from his service earlier.
Onjay is very sorry that he didn't turn his back on the Russians earlier
"I should have done it sooner. Sorry that it took so long, but I started geoblocking Russia on packages.sury.org Sury wrote on his GitHub profile. By the time the article was published, there were about 10 comments under this post. Most of them are Suras marked as not corresponding to the topic of discussion.
The protection is too weak
By the time the material was published, Sura's website was accessible from Russia without using additional technical means. At the same time, an attempt to download any of the files from it leads either to error 403 (Forbidden), or directly to a download failure.
However, the built-up protection of Sura from the Russians costs a couple of clicks. Any of the services that are still operating in Russia for replacing a Russian IP address with a foreign one opens full access to all files on its website without exception.
In other words, it cannot be said that Sura's decision made it even slightly more difficult for Russian users to access its RPA repositories. On the other hand, other developers may follow suit. By the time the material was released, the excommunication of Russians from private repositories had not yet become a mass phenomenon.
How one Czech took an example from other Czechs
Onjey Sura made the decision to block Russians by IP immediately after other Czech developers who have more weight in the global IT industry did the same.
CNews wrote that at the very beginning of July 2024, JetBrains banned users from Russia from downloading the distribution of the world-famous IntelliJ IDEA development environment from its website. JetBrains is a Czech company founded by immigrants from Russia at the beginning of the XXI century, and IntelliJ IDEA is one of its largest developments. It allows you to create software in Java, Kotlin, C#, C++, Python, PHP, JavaScript, and many other languages.
But, unlike Sura, the authors of IntelliJ IDEA indicated the official reason why they started geoblocking Russians. This, according to them, is due to the new packages of anti-Russian sanctions of the European Union.
As in the case of Suri, the ban on downloading IntelliJ IDEA, with a very high probability, will not affect the Russian developer community in any way. Runet is full of numerous pirated versions of this framework for Windows, macOS and Linux, and if you need the original distribution kit from the official JetBrains website, then you can get it using the same technical tools that provide access to Onjay Sura's repositories.
